Problems with installing EB (first time user)

[Hanniballer]

Alright, a few things:

-It is 0.81a.
-I have tried EB a couple times, uninstalling RTW at first through the game's uninstall program, and then a separate time only using the Add/Remove component. So I haven't tried those in conjunction.
-I made a copy of my newly installed RTW folder and renamed it EB, and installed EB from inside there.


I am unclear as to what you (Tellos) mean by "how many traces of RTW did you remove?" I have to remove more than just one of what to make the whole thing disappear?

Something I noticed was that the last time I installed RTW vanilla, it was already version 1.5, without me patching anything. So this might be an indication I am not uninstalling it correctly.

Thanks for the help.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

The fact that an "EB" folder exsists inside of another folder named "EB" may be a problem. I don't know...

[bovi]

I think that should work actually.

Hannibaler, I think your problem is a missing file concerning the Miles sound system. Check this page for a download of the library file you're missing, it's the first hit on Google for the filename. It should be placed somewhere under your Windows installation apparently.

According to some comments there it might not work with RTW though... Maybe you can find another version that works somewhere on the net, try Google, eMule etc.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I am unclear as to what you (Tellos) mean by "how many traces of RTW did you remove?" I have to remove more than just one of what to make the whole thing disappear?

A couple of things:
1) I meant this Removing multiple traces of RTW is required. And, I suspect the 1.3 patch being the cause people like me can't properly uninstall RTW using the uninstaller...
2) Do you have RTW gold?

Anyway, if you could always do the following things:
1) Uninstall everything RTW or EB you find on your PC. Just everything, leaving no copies of whatever on your HD.
2) Restart your PC, install RTW (without BI) -> back up this build
3) Check whether everything is patched properly, if not make sure it is.
4) Install EB on top of the original.
5) Never mind about BI. (Don't know anything about it, but IF this BI installer asks you to enter the destination path... Well, then you could try to make another back up of your back up, and install BI on top of that one.)
6) See if EB works now.

The DLL missing thing is a sure sign of a bad install, since RTW comes with the Miles thing - so if you fix that one you'll probably encounter some other error regarding missing or unknown stuff.

[Hanniballer]

Hey guys, I appreciate the help a lot. Once I get some time I will try to get EB to work again.

I have a few questions though: Should I use Add/Remove from the Control Panel or the Uninstall thing from itself first? And should I try to take off the patch (it says its 1.3 on my computer even though the actual version is 1.5) before I take off RTW itself? I think my RTW is Gold also, since it starts out patched to 1.5.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well, I only used the Add/Remove button - since my RTW uninstaller always gets stuck...

[Hanniballer]

Damn, it still doesn't work. I tried what you said-no dice. It is definitley the Gold Edition that I'm using...Any more suggestions? I was able to uninstall all traces of RTW and EB this last time too. It still says it cannot find RomeTW.exe

[Tellos Athenaios]

So you have now installed RTW only? If so, there's the method of stubborness:
restart your PC, try again;
if still no luck -> uninstall RTW with the uninstaller, if you haven't patched it;
-> restart your PC;
-> re install RTW;
-> check if it works;
If so: continue by patching it to 1.5 if it wasn't 1.5 already;
If not: try again;
If you have your RTW working and patched to 1.5: on to installing EB;
Check if it works now;
If not: on to step 1 again...

It's tiresome... but as soon as you've managed to get EB to live on your PC... I think you'll find it was worth it.

And: DO NOT BOTHER WITH BI. When you get tired/ bored of EB (IF you ever will), uninstall the whole lot, reinstall all of RTW/ BI you want.

[Hanniballer]

This last time I had to use v .8 instead of .81a, which I had been using before, does that make a difference? The link for .81a is down and at this point I don't care too much if its .8 or .81.